Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eastman Kodak), agreed that public education is broken and woefully in need of fixing. "We have students," said Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, co-chair of the conference, "graduating from high school with diplomas that they can't even read, who can't write a coherent sentence or do basic math." The other co-chair, IBM chief executive Louis V. Gerstner Jr., whose critical remarks on education to a Governors' Conference last July spurred this meeting, told one session, "It is not in the interest of business leaders to turn public schools into vocational schools. We can teach [students...
...evidence continues to accumulate that Theodore J. Kaczynski '62 was pre-destined to do bad deeds, and it seems that everyone who had contact with him during his time here can attest to that. Ted, as he must have been known by these intimates, is portrayed as a math prodigy conflicted by his poor social acumen--a bomber-in-the-making, and a smelly one at that...
...agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms yesterday continued to search his secluded Montana cabin for evidence tying him to a deadly series of bombings that occurred over a 18-year period, Harvard graduates racked their brains for memories of the quiet math concentrator...
...think he was a pretty good math major. I knew the name, and I knew of him," says Donald P. Ballou '62, a fellow mathematics concentrator...
...resigned in June 1969 and apparently gave up math, according to the department chair from the late 1960s...